By the end of the year my second grader should be able to:

• Begin to reason and concentrate
• Improve his ability to process information
• Improve her focus on a specific task
• Work cooperatively with a partner or small group
• Understand the difference between right and wrong
• Make connections between concepts so he will be better able to compare and contrast ideas
• Expand his vocabulary
• Correctly use irregular verbs
• Read fluently with expression
• Ask and answer who, what, where, when, why, and how questions about a piece of reading
• Revise and edit a piece of writing
• Use an apostrophe to form contractions and frequently occurring possessives
• Recognize most irregularly spelled words such as because and upon
• Begin to use a dictionary
• Do mental math for single-digit addition and subtraction problems
• Add single- and multi-digit numbers with regrouping
• Demonstrate an understanding of place value
• Tell time to the nearest five minutes, using AM and PM
• Know the basic concept of multiplication (for example, 2 x 3 is two rows of three and 600 is six 100s)
• Skip counting by 2, 5 and 10
• Add through 9s
• Subtract through 9s
• Create/describe simple patterns
• Tell time to the hour and half hour
• Know months and days
• Identify odd and even numbers
• Ordinal positions
• Simple graphing
• Identify both 2 and 3 dimensional shapes